Republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary special education

The role of business legal letters in the development of international relations. Their classification
Official business letter and official business style. Strict and fixed norms of writing business letters. Entering of business letter into the sphere of international relations. Diachronic analysis of official business letters. Business letters and emotional expressive means of influence. Business letter and its status of legal document. Classification of business legal letters according to their pragmatic purpose.
At present, when international relations – economic, cultural and political – are being rapidly developed, the role of business legal letters in this development is difficult to be overestimated. Any official business letter including legal letter serves for connection of institutions, organization and firms with each other and separate persons. The specific character of business legal letters is that they do not only serve as a means of delivering information or(and exerting influence on the addressee, but appear to be legal documents. They are a variety of official business documents realizing official business style with all attributes inherent in it.
Serving to business interrelations between people business legal letter passes into the sphere of international links (for example, transportation of cargo to different ports of the world, joint cruises with foreign companies and concluding an agreement in this connection, certain agreement, contracts between interested parties (parties concerned); filing a suit for the damage done during a cargo carriage or for the failure to fulfill under-taken commitments according to the concluded agreements etc). Thus, the letter which fixes the whole process of negotiations for settlement of this conflict and the agreement reached by two parties as a result of these negotiations and in accordance with the letter of the law acquires significance and status of the legal document. Hence follows a specific character of its formalization, namely: strict sequence and accuracy in stating factual, space and time information, objectivity of estimation, precision in formulating proposed decisions. That is why the language of business legal letters is characteristic of traditional linguistic means namely: strict-ness of composition, the use of special phraseology and syntactical clichés, and refusal of all variety of expressive linguistic means because the language of a document demands, first of all, accuracy and impossibility of false interpretations.
Business speech because of its communicative pragmatic properties, as a rule, does not have emotional expressive nuance, emotional means of expression. But it does not mean that the style of writing (narrative style) in official business letters is always neutral in its tone. Depending on a concrete content of a letter it can be deliberately impartial, emphatically official and demanding, ironic and solemnly enthusiastic.
It was considered for a long time that the style of official correspondence represents once and for all times a given pattern of official cliché expressions and formulas of politeness subjected to demands of straight-forwardness (monosemantic words and expressions) clearness, strictness of stating, in other words an official business letter was regarded as a type of communication absolutely free from displaying any kind of emotion. A letter writer was obliged to submit to the elaborated canon and conform to the strict rules which were compulsory in composing business letters. The use in official business style of some specific speech means, a characteristic of some other language styles (first of all fictional and publisistic styles) was perceived as violation of the accepted norm. The use of jargon, popular speech, colloquial and emotional tinged words, expressions or constructions was forbidden in the language of business documents.
In accordance with the pragmatic purpose and subject-matter of legal business letters we can single out the following types: information letters, covering letter; inquiry letter (which can be of two types (request letter and petition letter); reply to inquires; claim (which is divided into pretension letter and protest letter); letter of thanks and letter of guarantee.